0:08 – Catherine Belton (@CatherineBelton), is a reporter on Russia for the Washington Post, and from 2007 to 2013 was the Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times. We discuss her book Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia, and Then Took on the West.

FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $150 and receive a copy of Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West by Catherine Belton.

1:08 – Europe has been experiencing sweltering heat waves this week, including heat topping 40 degrees centigrade (105 fahrenheit) in London. That’s so far out of scale from normal society there that it has warped roads, it has melted the tarmac at airports, it has shut down train transit, and it has driven the rapid spread of wildfires across Europe. We’re joined by Dr Mariam Zachariah, a researcher at the Grantham Institute—Climate Change and the Environment division of the Imperial College London.

0:33 – Our final segment in today’s show features a speech from Gore Vidal at the Zellerbach Auditorium, UC Berkeley, June 30, 1990, entitled The Patriarchal State of the Union, about the Supreme Court and its tendency toward restricting freedom.

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